Lemonade Stand Hit-And-Run Driver Sentenced To A Month In Jail

PARKER, CO -- A Parker driver who hit a 12-year-old boy and left him in the street with a skull fracture was sentenced Tuesday to a month in jail.

Kimberley Miller, 49, pleaded guilty Feb. 5 to leaving the scene of an accident involving serious bodily injury. As part of the plea agreement, other charges against her were dropped, a statement from the 18th Judicial District Attorney said.

On July 25, 2017, Miller was driving her Lexus on Stonegate Parkway in Douglas County. Children had set up a donut and lemonade stand at the intersection of Creekview Drive.

Witnesses told authorities that Miller's Lexus hit the boy and kept on driving, the DA's office said. They told officials it had a broken passenger mirror from the impact. The boy was diagnosed with a skull fracture, a concussion and a bruised lung. He survived his injuries.

“Mercifully, the boy seems well healed,” said District Attorney George Brauchler.

Officers noticed the side-view mirror on Miller's Lexus had been duct-taped. When they interviewed her, she "had no recollection of any accident and was elusive and uncooperative," the DA's office said.

At sentencing, prosecutors asked for jail time. Douglas District Judge Shay Whittaker sentenced her to a month in Douglas County jail.

Image via 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office